Top 40 Will Arnett Quotes

You don’t want to try to recreate something you’ve already done.

Well, we were never coming back to Fox… that was clear.

‘Gob’ is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.

When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman – not an actor, obviously, but I’m still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.

I say to my kids all the time – and this is absolutely true – I always say, ‘Who’s the boss?’ and they go, ‘You are.’

I’m not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.

When it sort of finally sets in that you’re not going to be doing that anymore… it’s disappointing.

Everything’s not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV… You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that’s not what you wanted to do, then it wasn’t going to be for you, and that’s OK.

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I’ve been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

But since day one, we’ve always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it’s not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn’t know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was… in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it’s always been.

And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘Today is going to be a comedy day.’ And the next day, ‘Today’s going to be a drama day.’ Things happen in life that are fun and light, and things happen that are heavier. You just have to move your way through life, and I think ‘BoJack’ is a good reflection of that.

Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

My definition of family is just unconditional love. The people who rely on you and who love you, they are there, too.

What came out of ‘The LEGO Movie’ was the idea of ‘Batman’s the Dark Knight’, so why is he so moody? What’s going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn’t it be fun to get in there and explore that?

And we… right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.

But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.

People have this preconceived notion of me. I’m ‘Gob’ to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

At no point was I like, ‘Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously’.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody’s really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.

I’m a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

When David Cross and I made ‘Todd Margaret,’ we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome.

And then we’ve got Blades of Glory, and we’ve got Brothers Solomon, and I’ve got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don’t mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level.

Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love.

I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination.

It doesn’t look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you’re gonna take a hit from a… from sort of a public relations standpoint.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.

There’s a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

Well, no, I didn’t because I didn’t even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn’t even on my radar. I hadn’t… I hadn’t even thought about it.

I don’t aim to make art in a vacuum – you want people to like it.

I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don’t have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you’re wearing.

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don’t know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

As I get older, I’m sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves – one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read – and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.